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She said she was sexually assaulted as a teenager and had something like an "out-of-body experience" when she was humiliated in an audition.

A studio executive was quoted as saying a sexually demeaning remark about her that she says exemplifies the atmosphere in Hollywood.

Molly Ringwald wrote an essay detailing her many experiences of sexual harassment and assault over her acting career spanning four decades. It arrives as a growing series of scandals surrounding the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of women plague legendary film producer Harvey Weinstein.

"I have had plenty of Harvey Weinsteins of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition," she wrote for the New Yorker.

"When I was 13, a 50-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection," Ringwald writes in one passage. "At a time when I was trying to figure out what it meant to become a sexually viable young woman, at every turn some older guy tried to help speed up the process."

Ringwald started her career in Hollywood when she was young. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role in a 1982 adaptation of "The Tempest," released when she was 12 years old, and went on to star in teenage-themed movies like "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "Pretty in Pink." Right now, she plays a recurring character on "Riverdale."

Ringwald is at the 1987 Oscars. AP Photo

Despite the close attention her parents paid to her, Ringwald said it was a challenge to fend off preying men.

"I shudder to think of what would have happened had I not had them," Ringwald writes of her parents.

Ringwald goes into detail about an audition she had when she was in her 20s with an actor she was friends with. The director asked for the lead actor to put a dog collar around her neck:

"This was not even remotely in the pages I had studied; I could not even fathom how it made sense in the story. ... I don't even know if the collar ever made it on me, because that's the closest I've had to an out-of-body experience. I'd like to think that I just walked out, but, more than likely, there's an old VHS tape, disintegrating in a drawer somewhere, of me trying to remember lines with a dog collar around my neck in front of a young man I once had a crush on.I sobbed in the parking lot, and when I got home and called my agent to tell him what happened, he laughed and said, 'Well, I guess that's one for the memoirs...' I fired him and moved to Paris not long after."

In another incident, Ringwald writes about the time she was featured on the December 1995 cover of Movieline magazine. In the article, Jeffrey Katzenberg — then running Dreamworks after finishing a stretch as chairman of Walt Disney Studios — was quoted as saying "I wouldn't know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face." Katzenberg has spoken out against Weinstein, but warned that "he is not a lone actor."

"I was 24 at the time. Maybe he was misquoted. If he ever sent a note of apology, it must have gotten lost in the mail," Ringwald writes.

In her essay, Ringwald said that she has more stories but that relaying them might "get very repetitive" — which she says is the point. The prolificity of such stories should signal how women have been ignored for so long and she hopes the current conversation would lead Hollywood to change.